This Week

Programme Six: 21st November

In the sixth episode of Return to Our Lady's leukaemia patient David Connolly waits for the results of his bone marrow test, which the doctors hope will indicate that healthy donor blood cells have replaced his own diseased blood. If the results are positive David can go home for the first time in two months. He will need to be monitored closely for many months to ensure that his leukaemia doesn't re-appear.

Baby Emma Harrington, from Cork, is in the Intensive Care Unit with a serious heart condition. Her surgery was postponed last week because of a serious blood infection and though the infection hasn't cleared, the cardiac team have decided they must go ahead with her high-risk life-saving surgery as soon as possible.

13-year-old Ian Reilly suffers from the genetic lung disease cystic fibrosis. He has been on the waiting list for a lung donation for 6 months. Unfortunately there are no guarantees that one will be found. To get him out of the hospital room in which he spends so much of his life, the hospital have organised a special day out for him at the K Club in Kildare.

2 and a half year old Matthew McGrath has lived in his ICU bedroom for more than a year. He is paralysed from the neck down as a result of a meningitis infection. His family and primary nurse Ger have been fighting to get Matthew home. It's been a long drawn-out process. Meanwhile, Matthew waits in Our Lady's for a decision to be made.